Fritz Lang • Germany • 1929

Two years after revolutionizing the science fiction film with his epic Metropolis, director Fritz Lang revisits the genre with an ambitious spectacle dramatizing the first lunar expedition. Instead of relying on pure fantasy, Lang, screenwriter Thea von Harbou and a group of technical consultants conceived of a modernized trip to the moon grounded in state-of-the-art astrophysics. Spiced with romance and espionage, Woman in the Moon was one of the most influential science fiction films of its era.